--- name: "Colin Towns" canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-towns" fi1m_id: "colin-towns" imdb_id: "nm0870061" tmdb_id: 35079 wikidata_id: "Q352783" roles: ["Composer"] born: "1 January 1949" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-07T14:06:31.297550+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Colin Towns ## Identity Colin Towns - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-towns - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** colin-towns - **IMDb ID:** nm0870061 - **TMDB ID:** 35079 - **Wikidata ID:** Q352783 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Towns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35079 Composer. Born 1 January 1949 in London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 1 January 1949, London, England, UK - **Active:** 1992–2004 - **Also known as:** Colin Town - **Frequently works with:** [Julie Walters](https://film.one/person/julie-walters.md), Thora Hird - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Towns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870061/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35079 ## Biography Colin Towns is an English composer and keyboardist. Born in West Ham, London, he began playing piano as a child and worked as a session musician before joining the Ian Gillan Band in 1976 as keyboardist. He contributed to several albums with the band and its successor Gillan before turning to composition full-time in the early 1980s. Towns has scored numerous British television series and feature films. His credits include *Our Friends in the North* (1996), *Cadfael*, *Doc Martin*, *The Crow Road*, *The Buccaneers*, *Foyle's War* and films such as *Full Circle* (1977), *Vampire's Kiss* (1989), *The Puppet Masters* (1994), *Space Truckers* (1996) and *Guest House Paradiso* (1999). He has also composed for animation, theatre and advertising. Towns founded the Colin Towns Mask Orchestra, with which he has released several albums, and the independent label Provocateur Records. He has received BAFTA and Ivor Novello Award nominations for his television scores. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, discogs.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Our Friends in the North* (1996), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/our-friends-in-the-north.md) ## Complete filmography (98) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Ich will mein Glück zurück* (2023), Original Music Composer - *Verliebt in Valerie* (2019), Music - *Rawk ‘n’ Roll: The Rex Sessions* (2018), Actor - *Das Nebelhaus* (2017), Music - *A good mother* (2017), Music - *Am Kreuzweg* (2011), Music - *Gillan: The Glory Years* (2008), as Keyboards - *Half Broken Things* (2007), Music, Original Music Composer - *The Man Who Lost His Head* (2007), Music - *Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas* (2006), Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends* (2006), Music - *Gillan: Live Edinburgh 1980* (2006), as Keyboards - *Red Mercury* (2005), Music - *Not Only But Always* (2004), Original Music Composer - *My Angel* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2004), series, Original Music Composer - *King of Fridges* (2004), Music - *Double zéro* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Prometheus Bound* (2004), Music - *Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse* (2004), Original Music Composer - *Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action!* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Sons & Lovers* (2003), Original Music Composer - *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (2002), Original Music Composer - *Rockface* (2002), series, Original Music Composer - *Hot Money* (2001), Original Music Composer - *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (2001), Music - *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* (2001), series, Original Music Composer - *A Dinner of Herbs* (2000), series, Original Music Composer - *My Fragile Heart* (2000), Music - *Essex Boys* (2000), Original Music Composer - *Maybe Baby* (2000), Music - *Complicity* (2000), Original Music Composer - *The Secret* (2000), series, Music - *Guest House Paradiso* (1999), Original Music Composer - *The Waiting Time* (1999), Original Music Composer - *The Blonde Bombshell* (1999), series, Original Music Composer - *The Dark Room* (1999), Music - *Faeries* (1999), Music - *Tilly Trotter* (1999), series, Original Music Composer - *The Animal Train* (1998), Music - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod* (1998), Music - *Money Kings* (1998), Original Music Composer - *Heaven on Earth* (1998), Original Music Composer - *The Rag Nymph* (1997), series, Original Music Composer - *The Locksmith* (1997), series, Original Music Composer - *Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse* (1997), Original Music Composer - *Into the Blue* (1997), Original Music Composer - *The Wingless Bird* (1997), series, Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse* (1996), Music - *The Willows in Winter* (1996), Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse* (1996), Music - *Space Truckers* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, Original Music Composer - *Our Friends in the North* (1996), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/our-friends-in-the-north.md) - *The Wind in the Willows* (1995), Original Music Composer - *Body Language* (1995), Music - *Chiller: Toby* (1995), Music - *Chiller* (1995), series, Original Music Composer - *The Buccaneers* (1995), series, Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland* (1994), Music - *The Puppet Masters* (1994), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator - *Pat and Margaret* (1994), Original Music Composer - *Captives* (1994), Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher* (1994), Music - *Pie in the Sky* (1994), series, Music - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester* (1993), Music - *Stark* (1993), series, Music - *Wide-Eyed and Legless* (1993), Music - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding* (1993), Music - *Don't Leave Me This Way* (1993), Original Music Composer - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck* (1993), Music - *The Blackheath Poisonings* (1993), series, Music - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends* (1992), series, Music, Creator - *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny* (1992), Music - *Anglo Saxon Attitudes* (1992), series, Original Music Composer - *Truckers* (1992), Music - *Truckers* (1992), series, Music - *The Sandman* (1991), Original Music Composer - *Hands of a Murderer* (1990), Music - *Daughter of Darkness* (1990), Original Music Composer - *The Wolves of Willoughby Chase* (1989), Original Music Composer - *The Fifteen Streets* (1989), Music - *Vampire's Kiss* (1989), Original Music Composer - *Getting It Right* (1989), Original Music Composer - *The Fear* (1988), series, Original Music Composer - *The Play on One* (1988), series, Original Music Composer - *Bellman and True* (1987), Music - *Born of Fire* (1987), Original Music Composer - *Rawhead Rex* (1986), Music - *Shadey* (1985), Original Music Composer - *Slayground* (1984), Original Music Composer - *The Rocking Horse Winner* (1982), Music - *The Terminal Game* (1982), Music - *The Dumb Waiter* (1979), Music - *Full Circle* (1978), Original Music Composer - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Original Music Composer, Music --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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